misinherit

verb

Etymology

From mis- + inherit.

  1. derived from inhereditare
  2. derived from enheriter
  3. inherited from enheriten
  4. prefixed as misinherit — “mis + inherit

Definitions

  1. To inherit incorrectly.

    • And this incongruence of the inner constitution of man's soul is invincible and universal: his nature is a disordered jumble of misinherited tendencies.
    • He confessed at the last that he had betrayed the trust of the dead, and misinherited a fortune .
    • This prepared a legacy that the further acquaintance of the seventeenth century could only misinherit because seventeenth-century American settlers concentrated on "developing" the land, not on describing it.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA